Roman mosaic, Tebessa

The version from Tebessa is heavily ornamented which makes the underlying pattern, shown here, less obvious.

• The symmetry group of the tiling is 442 (p4).
• All the internal angles of the constituent polygons are a multiple of 90°.
• Contains one square.
• There are no non-regular reflective pairs and one tile with no mirror image.
• The tiling does not satisfy the two-colour condition.
• The tiling is not edge-to-edge.
• As drawn, contains about 79 polygons.

1. Pl 143 (c) (Tebessa) of Catherine Balmelle .... Le décor géométrique de la mosaïque romaine, Paris, Picard, 2002. ISBN 270840624. [balmelle] {2 vols}

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